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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division FABIAN ERNESTO GUIDA, Case No. 20-cv-01471-LB

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING THE

DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR

v. SUMMARY JUDGMENT DENYING

THE DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR

LOREN K. MILLER, et al., SUMMARY JUDGMENT Defendants. Re: ECF No. 31, 33 16 INTRODUCTION The plaintiff, a citizen of Argentina and an equestrian vaulting coach, had an O-1A nonimmigrant work visa for immigrants of extraordinary ability, enabling him to work in the United States lawfully. Because he wants to remain here permanently, he applied for an EB-1 visa, also known as an “extraordinary ability” visa.1 The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (UCIS) denied his application on the ground that the plaintiff established only two (and not the required three) regulatory criteria. The plaintiff challenges that decision as arbitrary and capricious.2 The parties both…